Competing visions for ArtWorks building: culinary institute, ‘creative worker’ space
A private nonprofit board is looking for a buyer. The state and the city are looking for their loans to be repaid.
Neighbors succeed in bringing temporary halt to plans for a concrete batching plant off Earhart
Residents of the Zion City neighborhood have seen a steady encroachment of commercial enterprises in what had been a residential area. The neighborhood is zoned for "light industrial," but Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell had the city create a special zoning district after construction started on the site without a permit.
Zombie planet: a Vodou vision of the environmental apocalypse ahead
"We want our air-conditioning and our automobiles, so we simply disregard the sure knowledge that we are enslaving the earth's resources to our greed."
Wisner advisers narrowly give blessing to city’s plan for disbursing grants
With legal logjam mostly broken, city moves ahead with 2013 payments of $1.5 million.
KIPP New Orleans Schools spent $120,000 on training in Las Vegas
About 185 of KIPP's 440 employees in New Orleans attended a national summit for KIPP staffers in Nevada. The trip cost substantially more than the $69,400 that Friends of King spent on a staff-wide retreat in Biloxi, Miss. But Kipp's nine schools all have money in the bank, while one of Friends of King's two schools posted a $1 million deficit.
Has state found strategy to hold Corps of Engineers responsible for coastal erosion?
The legal community remains skeptical that the federal agency's immunity can be punctured.
‘Ban the Box’ hailed as a step in the right direction — if approved
"A judge never acknowledges that he is sentencing someone to a life of unemployment or homelessness."
Start-up incubator enters competing bid for failed ArtWorks building off Lee Circle
With provision for artist studios and gallery space, Launch Pad's vision is closer to the original ArtWorks concept.
Crescent Leadership Academy considers ‘learning communities’
Board holds meeting despite not having a quorum physically present.
